On the night of October 3, the third stage of the 2021 season of the Central League duel came to an end, Meizhou Hakka beat Gusu Dongwu with a good score of 3 to 1, with a record of 21 wins, 1 draw and 4 losses, and 64 points to lead the standings. Meanwhile, Wuhua County Civilization, Radio, Television, Tourism and Sports Bureau, where the Meizhou Hakka team is located, issued a notice on soliciting the interim measures for the management of the special funds for supporting the development and growth of the working soccer team in Wuhua County. If the Meizhou Hakka team succeeds in reaching the Super League this season, it will receive strong financial support from the Wuhua County government.
In the eight rounds of the just-concluded third phase of the 2021 season's Central League, Meizhou Hakka won all their matches in near-unbeatable form. Together with their victories in the last two rounds of the second stage, Meizhou Hakka continues to lead the table with 10 consecutive wins. In terms of points from the first 26 rounds, leading Meizhou Hakka scored 64 points, followed by Wuhan Sanzhen with 61 points, Zhejiang with 58 points and Chengdu Rongcheng with 55 points. This means that Meizhou Hakka is six points ahead of third-placed Zhejiang and nine points ahead of fourth-placed Chengdu Rongcheng before the crucial fourth stage kicks off. With 8 rounds left in the league, Meizhou Hakka has taken a clear lead.
Just at the critical moment of the Super League, Wuhua County Civilization, Radio, Television, Tourism and Sports Bureau recently announced the interim measures for the management of special funds for Wuhua County to support the development and growth of the working soccer team, which is actually a kind of strong support for Meizhou Hakka team from the level of the local government, and also demonstrates Wuhua County's firm determination to keep the Meizhou Hakka team in the local area. If the Meizhou Hakka team succeeds in the Super League this season, Wuhua County will become the first county-level city in China to have a Chinese Super League team, and will also be the only county to have both men's and women's soccer teams in the country's top league.
According to the Wuhua County Civilization, Radio, Television, Tourism and Sports Bureau publicized Wuhua County to support the development and growth of working soccer team special fund management interim measures, the special fund will set up a pool of funds, since the date of issuance of the document, the annual pool of funds for 84 million yuan.
In the men's football work soccer team support criteria, including the success of the first division, the success of the Super League, the success of the Super League team's annual relegation and the success of the Super League team's annual relegation, respectively, to give different amounts of support funds.
The criteria for supporting women's soccer teams include success in the Super League, success in the annual relegation of Chinese Women's Super League teams and success in the annual relegation of Chinese Women's First Division teams, and the corresponding amount of support funds will be given to them respectively.
In terms of support standards for working soccer reserve teams, Chinese Super League and Chinese League A clubs that establish training bases in Wuhua will receive annual reserve team support funds.
According to the publicized method, if the Meizhou Hakka team succeeds in the Super League this season, it will receive 20 million yuan of support funds from Wuhua County. In addition, Meizhou Hakka Football Club will also receive 4 million yuan per year to support the reserve team of working soccer.
At the same time, Meizhou Hakka Football Club in 2020 has taken over the Guangdong Women's Football Club, which is playing in the Women's Super League. According to the support standards of the special fund pool, if the Guangdong Meizhou Hakka Women's Football Club succeeds in relegation this season, the soccer club will receive 8 million yuan of support funds from the Women's Super League for relegation success. If the Meizhou Hakka soccer club in men's football finished super, women's football finished relegation, from the Wuhua County soccer special fund pool will get 32 million yuan of support funds.
On the morning of October 9, Cao Yang, General Manager of Meizhou Hakka Football Club, together with Cheng Zhiwen, Director of Guangdong Provincial Football Sports Center, and Deng Huanhuan, Deputy Director of Guangdong Provincial Football Sports Center, took part in the mobilization meeting of Guangdong Meizhou Hakka Women's Football Team for the 2021 Women's Super League at Guangdong Provincial Football Sports Center. This year's Women's Super League started on May 8, and in the first stage of the tournament, Guangdong Meizhou Hakka Women's Football Team achieved 2 wins and 1 loss, and ranked third in the table with 6 points. The second phase of the tournament will kick off on October 19 in Kunming, where the Guangdong Meizhou Hakka Women's Football Team will face Shanghai Agricultural and Commercial Bank, an undefeated team in three matches.
The Meizhou Hakka women's soccer team, which has a number of new and old international players such as Luo Guiping, Lin Yuping, Li Qingtong, Zhong Xiudong, Tan Ruyin, Chen Qiaozhu and Xie Qiwen, is aiming for the relegation level this season, but Cao Yang hopes that the team can go all out and strive for better results.
It is worth noting that the predecessor of this Meizhou Hakka women's football team Meizhou Hui Jun women's football team super when it had won the Meizhou Municipal Government of 20 million yuan of super award, if the men's football team Meizhou Hakka team in the season super success, in addition to the Wuhua County Government's support of the rewards, the Meizhou Municipal Government will also take the corresponding support measures.
